ROXY: howJOHN: easy.JOHN: i have a magic ring!ROXY: whatROXY: u have one tooJOHN: yes!JOHN: wait. what do you mean too?JOHN: you have a magic ring??ROXY: i HAD oneROXY: fuckin lost it thoughROXY: made peeps invisible who put it onJOHN: ah.JOHN: no, mine doesn't do that.JOHN: it brings ghosts back to life!ROXY: FUCKROXY: no waiJOHN: yes wai. way.JOHN: it's back at my house.JOHN: i could go get it right now!ROXY: damn sonROXY: i find this 2 be some truly baller happenstanceROXY: if ur claim is true im.......ROXY: im cry :')JOHN: it is quite true.JOHN: it should be a piece of cake.JOHN: you just wear it when you go to sleep, and it comes with you in your dreams.JOHN: then you find your cherub friend, put it on her finger, and bring her back!JOHN: i think you can only use it once though. so once she's wearing it, it would be hers forever, or at least as long as she wants it.ROXY: yoROXY: yoooooROXY: john thats amazingROXY: i dunno though that sounds likeROXY: such an obscenely precious commodityROXY: u sure you want to let me use it?JOHN: sure.JOHN: it's no big deal, really.JOHN: for a while i was hanging on to it, thinking that i might give it to...JOHN: aw man, this is going to sound dumb.ROXY: hm?JOHN: there was a girl who i was considering giving it to, for some reason.JOHN: remember? she was the diabolical one who figured prominently in my long story.ROXY: umROXY: oh yeaROXY: fresca rightJOHN: yes, close enough.JOHN: see, she REALLY wanted that ring.JOHN: and she found out i had it, and...JOHN: honestly, i'm not sure why it even crossed my mind to give it to her?JOHN: i guess i was just used to the idea that i liked her for some reason.JOHN: at least i thought i did.JOHN: it was a stupid idea based on hardly anything. like one day of conversations.JOHN: but since i've gotten to know her better...JOHN: i don't know.JOHN: i think i might actually...JOHN: kind of hate her?ROXY: yeah?JOHN: yeah, she's...JOHN: actually pretty awful!JOHN: she's so full of herself, and mean to her friends, and...JOHN: dangerous.JOHN: really, really dangerous.ROXY: ouchROXY: well what can i say johnROXY: love suxJOHN: yeah. it does.JOHN: anyway, i don't think i can let anyone like that have the ring.ROXY: but u dont mind trustin me w it?JOHN: no!JOHN: it's funny, after spending some time with a person who is legitimately crazy, it becomes easy to tell right away when someone...JOHN: isn't?ROXY: lolROXY: u sure about thatJOHN: well, yeah, everyone is a little crazy. i just mean not BAD crazy.JOHN: besides, you don't even want the ring for yourself.JOHN: you want to give it to someone you care about.JOHN: that is what makes you one of the good guys.ROXY: what a nice thing to sayROXY: i bet sayin stuff like that is why ur their leaderJOHN: what makes you think i'm the leader?ROXY: come on dude you are obvs the leader of otherkid teamsquadROXY: i can just tellJOHN: haha, ok. i'll take that as a compliment.JOHN: anyway, i'll go get the ring now.ROXY: yay!ROXY: ill wait hereROXY: no need to set off the alarms with a daring escape just yetROXY: lets keep em lulled into a false sense of control over the sitchROXY: we can start scheming under their nose while u keep sneakin around undetectedROXY: the last thing we want is for all hell to break loose before we know what were doinJOHN: yeah, that's a good plan.JOHN: if i had to guess, i'd say you must be the leader of your team squad too, right?ROXY: naaawROXY: that's janeROXY: as you can see shes the one with a knack for ruthless executive authorityROXY: is a shame she only uses it when evil tho :(JOHN: yeah.JOHN: but maybe we can do something about that, if we work together.ROXY: :DJOHN: alright. off i go.JOHN: keep practicing your powers!JOHN: see you, roxy.

So what do we call this pause? I've been batting ideas around all day. We could go with the obvious choice, the MINIGIGAPAUSE. Or maybe, MEGAPAUSE 2: BACK IN THE MEGASADDLE. Or if that makes too much sense, we could always settle on the MICROTERAPAUSE. As you can see, there are so many incredibly intelligent and meaningful things we could call this pause. Deciding how to refer to the pause is an exercise that I will leave to the reader. Feel free to discuss the matter with friends. Or strangers. Anyone who will listen really. If they start to run away, I strongly recommend you chase them.

Why don't we say that A665 begins on 4/13. That's a fun number that we all can get excited about. I have a lot of catch-up work to do between now and then. Not the least of which is drawing the actual content to be posted. But also a lot of gamedev work. Game production is rolling pretty hot right now. Stuff is being churned out almost faster than I can keep track of. Did I mention? I accidentally started running a game studio a little while ago. Whoops, sorry about that. There are all these people being paid to make things happen, and I have to be like "Yeah, keep doing that stuff, everybody." It's getting pretty easy to lose track of how many people work for What Pumpkin. My last estimate was somewhere between 30 and 1000. The true figure is a very frisky moving target.

A6A6A5, a.k.a. Caliborn's Masterpiece, is actually done. It's probably better to hold off posting it until 4/13, when more content will soon follow aftewards. I am sure pausing on that note for months would mess with your head a lot more than the note we're already pausing on. I sometimes feel I have at least a modest responsibility to manage your sanity. It'll be tough sitting on this content though. Tougher than sitting on all of A664 for the better part of a year. I don't think it is out of line to describe it as the best material this website will ever exhibit. It will be all down hill from there, in every direction. Even up.

Speaking of sanity management, way back when, I was pretty on the fence about posting A664 spaced out over months like I did, vs. all at once. Doing the latter in hindsight probably would have been a fucked up thing to do to the internet though. The GAME OVER fallout alone was a bit much as it was. Including it in tandem with the rest of it? Not sure what to make of that. Let's review the CONTENT CRUSH that would have entailed. Bad Anime -> Game Over -> Sadstuck -> Lowas Quest -> 100 retconned panels of oil -> A bunch of other shit -> Punky Serket -> Fantroll Storytime -> 8 password pages -> The Kiss On Horse Mountain -> and finally -> The Punchline. You know, that's an awful lot of baloney to publish. I think the fell-swoop reaction to all that would have been quite a thing to behold, but also, perhaps an irresponsible thing to do to a hapless fanbase after a year in hibernation. I'm told that in 2015, young people are heavily susceptible to "the feels", and trifling with those forces could be injurious to their future development. Wait, did that just sound like something your grandpa would say? Mother fuck, where did I put my cane. Oh right, I snapped it in half from shaking it at the sky.

I may have been in the process of making a point there, but we're going to have to pick this up another time. The comic isn't going to pause itself!!!

Over the last couple months, I have been surreptitiously collapsing several update horses into single, bigger horses. This means A6A6I4 is going to end a little sooner than previously advertised. Same total page count, but finishing sooner. Please consult the important horse calendar below.

So what happens when A6A6I4 is done? I'm not quite sure yet. I'm still working on everything that comes after that. I've written it mostly, but haven't drawn anything yet. There will almost certainly be another pause, but I'm not sure how long it will be yet. I will let you know after 1/19.